Une histoire de l'informatique

While computer science may seem like the youngest and most spirited of scientific disciplines, it nevertheless has very ancient roots. Did you know that algorithms owe their name to a ninth-century Muslim scholar, or that the first known computer program was written by a Victorian-era programmer?

Through these pioneers and their work, we will explore the family tree of computing and the ideas that led to its development: from Boole's formal logic and Leibniz's binary arithmetic to Turing machines, Shannon's information theory, and beyond.

We will thus see that, far from being strange artifacts of modern societies, our computers are above all the logical culmination of information science!